Sri Lanka
Issues and Challenges
Despite achievements in the human development front, Sri Lanka continues to face the challenges of accelerating the growth rate of the economy which has been fluctuating between four to six percent in recent years. In terms of employment generation, the private sector has continued to play a leading role. In 2006. the private sector had a 42.1 percent share of total employment while the public sector was estimated at 13 percent. Read more...